From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 23:46:48 MDT
"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> *I* was always under the impression that "ischemia" in the context of cryonics referred to the period of interrupted
> flow between cessation of vital signs and either (1) initiation of perfusion, or (2) stabilization at suspension
> temperature. Arguably, patients coming out of storage could be called "ischemic", too.
Oh. I thought that ischemia was being used to refer to the actual
suspension period, which is admittedly my fault, but will perhaps be
recurrently the fault of others as well. Anyway, I know that "ischemic
coma" was proffered as a synonym for "reversibly dead" at least once in
the history of cryonics, and I also know that I've seen some attempts
lately to soft-pedal the fact of death, so perhaps I can be forgiven my
misinterpretation.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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